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Glen or Glenda? Overview:

Glen or Glenda? (1953) was a Drama - Comedy Film directed by Edward D. Wood Jr. and produced by George Weiss.

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Cinematic Dregs: Glen or Glenda?

By Barry P. on Jul 13, 2014 From Cinematic Catharsis

(1953) Written and directed by Edward D. Wood, Jr.; Starring: Bela Lugosi, Edward D. Wood, Jr., Lyle Talbot, Dolores Fuller Rating: *** “I’m a young punk and here I’m working with the great master and I was fighting the fact that am I doing right by the man; am I doing... Read full article

Cinematic Dregs: Glen or Glenda?

By Barry P. on Jul 13, 2014 From Cinematic Catharsis

(1953) Written and directed by Edward D. Wood, Jr.; Starring: Bela Lugosi, Edward D. Wood, Jr., Lyle Talbot, Dolores Fuller Rating: *** “I’m a young punk and here I’m working with the great master and I was fighting the fact that am I doing right by the man; am I doing... Read full article

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Glen or Glenda? Quotes:

Scientist: Pull the string! Pull the string!
Scientist: People... all going somewhere... all with their own thoughts... their own ideas... all with their own personalities.
Scientist: Beware. Beware. Beware of the big, green dragon that sits on your doorstep. He eats little boys, puppy dog tails and big, fat snails. Beware. Take care. Beware.
Scientist: Beware! Beware of the big green dragon that sits on your doorstep. He eats little boys... Puppy dog tails, and BIG FAT SNAILS... Beware... Take care... Beware!
Glen: My mind is in a muddle. Like... thick fog. I can't make sense to myself sometimes.
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Glen or Glenda? Facts
In March 1981, Paramount placed a full-page page ad in the New York Times announcing the reissue of Glen or Glenda, seriously (or so it appeared) heralding it as a lost trail-blazing masterpiece in the tradition of Citizen Kane, Freaks, The Godfather and Napoleon. A big New York premiere was scheduled for the reissue but the date of the event - April 1 -left film buffs suspecting the whole thing was just an April Fool's Day joke engineered by studio pranksters. In any event, the studio abruptly canceled the event on the eve of the event, with Paramount pointing to the March 30 assassination attempt on then-president Ronald Reagan just two days earlier. (The curio was quietly put into limited re-release the following month, then soon afterward began showing up on TV "bad movie" film festivals.)
Alternate titles for this included "I Changed My Sex", "He or She" and "I Led Two Lives".
Warren Beatty is purported to have sponsored its 1981 reissue by Paramount, while he was working there making Reds.
Originally intended to be (loosely) based upon the story of sex-change pioneer Christine Jorgensen, but Edward D. Wood Jr. - a transvestite - instead made it into a film about transvestism.
Stock footage totals 13 mins, 48 secs, or 20% of the total run time including credits. 73 seconds of stock run concurrently with new footage of Bela Lugosi. Stock scenes include "Fake Lightning", used 6 times, "Pedestrians" 3 times, "Highway Day" 3 times, "Highway Night" twice, "Playground" twice, "Superior Court" twice, "Ridiculous Soft Core", "Natives", "Bison Stampede", "Parking Lot", "Steel Foundry", "WWII", "Ambulance", "Airplane", "Signalman", "Milkman", and "Girls with Fuzzy Hats or Sweaters"
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